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Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by watwut »

enitihas wrote: post #119
watwut wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is lacking non-technical skills in that scenario? I just don't see it.

I think looking at @pixiuPL's commits ( https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL ) and his tall, non sensical claims makes it clear who lacks the basic human communication skills. Just have a look for yourself. Looking at some issues filed by him ( https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/7016 ) makes the entire thing more clear.

Gotcha. Through, lack of communications skills and being either delusional or complete dick is not the same. Meaning there are people whose main problem is lack of communication skills and people whose problems run much deeper.

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by enitihas »

nolok wrote: post #117
enitihas wrote: post #111

For those who haven't looked at some of the commits by @pixiuPL, the list is here : https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL . To summarize: It does not look like the guy has done a single commit with any meaning. His commits are basically the following: 1. Adding his own name in package.json 2. Adding and deleting whitespace. 3. Deleting the entire project and commiting. 4. Adding the entire project…

Given that he hides those behind fake commit message (unless one counts removing a comment or a whitespace "code refactoring), I would say rather likely.

It seems there are no limits to this madness.e,g https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commit/970edb9b683175a6b1...

In this commit the guy deletes two spaces from a file, and adds copyright for his name at the top. Going through his commits has made me extremely shocked. I mean how did such low quality commits made it into the master branch of the repo. It is like these commits were invisible to all the visitors and users of the repo.

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

feelin_googley wrote: post #54
apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legacy systems for one. The Cooperative Patent Classification group releases their classifications en masse as HTML (single zip download, which is great). I built a parser for a PHP project that could parse all several hundred thousand records from the HTML in a few minutes. In 2017, they switched to a system that loads in the data from JSON stored in Javascript in the HTML (it is every bit as terrible as you imagine…

Is this the data you were trying to parse? https://www.cooperativepatentclassification.org/Archive.html

Yes, but I just realized I was mistaken. The data I was talking about was the International Patent Classification. CPC was XML, IPC is HTML, and the former/now-deprecated US patent classification system was plain text. I have to deal with all three on a regular basis and have built importers for all three, and I forget which one is which.

IPC can be downloaded from the link below. I needed the Valid Symbol List. Looks like they fixed the encoded JSON that was there when they first put out the new format.

http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en/ITsupport/Version...

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by captain_murdock »

enitihas wrote: post #111

For those who haven't looked at some of the commits by @pixiuPL, the list is here : https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL . To summarize: It does not look like the guy has done a single commit with any meaning. His commits are basically the following: 1. Adding his own name in package.json 2. Adding and deleting whitespace. 3. Deleting the entire project and commiting. 4. Adding the entire project…

Grab some popcorn and give this a read: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15345.

@pixiuPL thinks he's king of the world, but gets rightfully put in his place.

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by michaelermer »

enitihas wrote: post #111

For those who haven't looked at some of the commits by @pixiuPL, the list is here : https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL . To summarize: It does not look like the guy has done a single commit with any meaning. His commits are basically the following: 1. Adding his own name in package.json 2. Adding and deleting whitespace. 3. Deleting the entire project and commiting. 4. Adding the entire project…

Also look at stuff like this... https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/5468

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by enitihas »

enitihas wrote: post #111

For those who haven't looked at some of the commits by @pixiuPL, the list is here : https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL . To summarize: It does not look like the guy has done a single commit with any meaning. His commits are basically the following: 1. Adding his own name in package.json 2. Adding and deleting whitespace. 3. Deleting the entire project and commiting. 4. Adding the entire project…

I think an interesting project may be to look at popular github repositories and searching for such 'stat builders',i.e, people who make commits of no utility just to boost their github stats.

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by enitihas »

michaelermer wrote: post #126
enitihas wrote: post #111

For those who haven't looked at some of the commits by @pixiuPL, the list is here : https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commits?author=pixiuPL . To summarize: It does not look like the guy has done a single commit with any meaning. His commits are basically the following: 1. Adding his own name in package.json 2. Adding and deleting whitespace. 3. Deleting the entire project and commiting. 4. Adding the entire project…

Also look at stuff like this... https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/5468

The main question which is coming to my mind right now is how on earth did this guy get contributor access to the repository. And here I used to think that being maintainer of a large open source project must take a lot of talent and hard work.

Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development

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Post by mkarnicki »

rumblefrog wrote: post #124

Within the issue @pixiuPL created, I listed some of the things that he has shown incompetence on: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15345#issuecomment...

Nicely put github comment, well done. Thank you. I feel sick in my mouth seeing PL in his username, which clearly indicates my home country. I am beyond baffled.
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